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carabide

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Finally.....I see it
« on: October 13, 2011, 09:25:37 pm »
After two years of DF, and countless times of telling myself I will never do it, I SEE THE ASCII! I see the little puppies, I see the goblins, even the butchers cutting up the kittens! I feel like a true dwarf now.


How long did it take you guys to use ASCII?
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Re: Finally.....I see it
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2011, 09:29:42 pm »
About three months for me.  :D
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Re: Finally.....I see it
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2011, 09:41:05 pm »
Despite never having played a roguelike/text-based game before, I memorized the ASCII symbols within a week or so; I don't think I used a graphics pack either. Apparently my ability for associating arbitrary symbols/numbers with other concepts is quite good.
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Re: Finally.....I see it
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2011, 10:06:17 pm »
I decided to try out DF again without a tile set after falling in love with Dungeon Crawl. I earned that it was fairly simple to memorize the symbols after a couple dozen deaths.

Also, I am trying out 40d (read: only version that works) and so far so good. Buncha Harpies decided to fly around, but so far no conflict...
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Re: Finally.....I see it
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2011, 10:36:44 pm »
Yeah, DF was my first ASCII game but I figured everything out within a few days.
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Re: Finally.....I see it
« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2011, 10:59:47 pm »
I've never used anything other than ASCII.

Not to sound like an arrogant prick, but the only thing that took some time was learning what unit each letter was, i had almost no problem with the rest of the visuals.
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Re: Finally.....I see it
« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2011, 11:50:02 pm »
The only time I've ever used graphics was when I had to for the latest version of Genesis mod.
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Re: Finally.....I see it
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2011, 12:39:34 am »
Only ever played with ASCII... Took about two weeks to not have my hand hovering over the k button.
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« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2011, 01:56:43 am »
I started off with ASCII and was comfortable with it after a week or so of starting. I've only used a texture pack once out of curiosity, and I haven't used one since.
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Re: Finally.....I see it
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2011, 02:00:33 am »
Few days after hearing that ASCII mode is slightly faster than with graphics sets.

...I have played some roguelikes in my time, okay?
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« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2011, 03:40:09 am »
When I had first tried DF I couldn't deal with the text graphics.  I used maydays for months and then one day I switched over to ASCII and it just made complete sense right away. 
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Re: Finally.....I see it
« Reply #11 on: October 14, 2011, 03:45:59 am »
Never played with a tileset.
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« Reply #12 on: October 14, 2011, 07:18:32 am »
Never used a tileset.

Then again, I have plenty of experience with roguelikes... starting with...er Rogue.
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« Reply #13 on: October 14, 2011, 09:14:31 am »
Never used a tileset.  I'm not quite so old as the above poster, as I started rogueliking with ADOM, IIRC.

In any case, it only took me a few minutes to understand things.  Every once in a while I'd need to loo[k] at something, but not often.
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Re: Finally.....I see it
« Reply #14 on: October 14, 2011, 09:25:05 am »
Sometimes I do sometimes I don't, I can read asii but prefer the old phoebus tilesets when possible.
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